Modern ethnicities Diaspora Performing arts Government agencies Television Radio Newspapers Taveta is the name of a tribe found in Kenya.

Many Tavetans are occupied by commercial and subsistence farming, with the main cash crop being bananas and cotton, sugarcane, exotic and tropical fruits especially mangoes, avocados and many horticultural produce.

The Taveta land and people won brief international attention during World War I, when German and British colonial forces clashed there at the slaughter hill "Salaita".

Taveta is close to the Southeast African coast (Mombasa), and approximately ten percent of Tavetans practice Islam.

According to Tavetan lore, the tribe was first exposed to Islam when Arab traders were crossing through their land and were impressed by their conduct leading to mass voluntary conversions.